222 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



LYCJ]NOPSIS DILECTA. 



Plate 625, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ?, 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, (J , 2d, ? (Dry-season Brood). 



Polyommatus diledus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 139. 



Cyaniris dilectus, de Niceville, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 68, pi. i. fig. o, ^ ; id. Butt, of India, 



iii. p. 107 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 622. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 295. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 659. 

 Cijaniris dilecta, Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 331, pi. 19, fig. 128, ^ (1907). 

 LycBenopsis dilecta, Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1909, p. 453 (text fig. 92). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, $, 2a, ?, 2b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale lilac-blue. Forewing with the middle of the 

 wing somewhat pale ; a very slender black, costal line ; a slender black outer marginal 

 line. Hindmng with the costal space narrowly suflFused with grey, ending in a small 

 blackish space at the apex ; outer marginal black line also slender ; in some examples 

 there is a pale space in the upper disc of the wing. Underside whitish with a very 

 faint bluish tint ; markings pale brown, very slender, and hardly to be traced ; on the 

 forewing the sub-terminal series is uniformly in hne ; on the hindwing the discal series 

 is in minute dots, and both wings have the cell markings and usual terminal markings 

 faintly indicated. 



Female. Upperside suffused with blackish with blue reflections. Forewing with 

 broad costal and marginal blackish bands. Hindwing with some blue reflections at 

 the base ; a sub-terminal lunular blackish line and a black marginal line with black 

 spots between them ; the veins on both wings more or less prominent. Underside as 

 in the male ; the markings more distinct. Cilia white, marked with black. Antennae 

 black, ringed with white ; head and body blackish-brown above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^ to l-^ inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 2c, $, 2d, $). 



Male. Upperside of a brighter blue ; a large white patch in the middle of the 

 forewing, and a large discal patch on the hindwing, which is sometimes confined to the 

 upper disc ; the patch varies much in size, and sometimes extends across the wing ; a 

 slender black costal line on the forewing, and slender black marginal lines on both 

 wings. Underside as in the Wet-season form. 



Female. Upperside mostly white. Forewing with blue reflections, markedly so 

 in the upper disc ; costal and marginal black bands a little narrower than in the other 

 form ; a Ijlack spot at the end of the cell, touching the costal band ; basal portion 

 irrorated with pale blackish scales and some similar scales sparsely placed on the lower 

 portion of the wing. Hindwing. Upperside nearly all white ; some blackish sufiusion 



